Timetable (1956)

TIMETABLE  (1956)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Mark Stevens
    Mark Stevens, King Calder, Felicia Farr,
    Jack Klugman, Marianne Stewart, Wesley Addy
A low-rent precursor to "Touch of Evil", about two investigators, one working for an insurance company and the other for the railroad, trying to solve what appears to be the perfect crime: a $500,000 train robbery. A couple of switchbacks in the story keep you guessing for a while. The railroad man says the thieves will slip up sooner or later, and they do. The insurance man would rather be on vacation in Mexico City, but the case does take him as far as Tijuana. One of them knows a lot more about the robbery than he's letting on. Stevens also produced, and while he's no Orson Welles, he knows his way around a B movie. When you're a character trapped in a picture like this one, you're trapped but good.